The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) has announced the eight finalists for the 2008 Polyurethane Innovation Awards.
Rockwood Color Pigments & Services Division has announced a new distribution network in the United States and Canada for the full line of Rockwood Pigments products, including Elementis’ pigments products.
Dow Epoxy, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow), has reached a significant milestone in its plans to build a 100,000 MTPA liquid epoxy resin (LER) plant and a 150,000 MTPA glycerine-to-epichlorohydrin (GTE) plant at Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP) by the end of 2010 – the approval of environmental impact assessments (EIA) by China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection.
PERSTORP, Sweden - Perstorp, the Swedish chemicals Group, has received legal approval for the takeover of the acquired activities within Rhodia Organics and Lyondell Chimie. The acquisition is the sixth
MetoKote Corp. Inc.
has hired Roger Cook as Strategic Account Manager representing MetoKote’s Deere
and Co. business. Cook will be based in Lansing, MI.